Loom.



Patented mr. I8, 4902' C. J. NAUEN.

LUOM. 7

(Application filed Dec. 17, 1901.) I

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. NAUEN, OF PATERSON, NEIV JERSEY.

L om.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,622, dated March 18,1902.

Application filed December 1'7, 1901. Serial No. 86,248. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES J. N AUEN, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing in Paterson,in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Looms; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters and figures of referenee marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to looms; and it consists in a loom having its parts constructed and arranged substantially as will be hereinafter described and claimed and with the object, mainly, of placing on the shuttle or other form of weft-carrier used the duty of' great advantage without compromise with regard to the other necessary or desirable features of the ordinary loom as it has been improved up to the present time and from.

some of which, in fact, even better results may be obtained.

Myinvention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the loom, the section being taken just forward of the batten. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of the loom,and Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate details.

In the frame a are arranged in the usual manner the crank-shaft b, batten structure 0, lay-swords d, carrying said batten structure and connected to the cranks e on the shaft h shuttle is driven across the lay or batten and enters the box, it tends to crowd or force the free or inner end of this block m outwardly.

In a bracket p,near each end of the batten,

is fulcrumed a bell-crank lever q, one end of which extends upwardly parallel with the front face of the batten and opposite the inner end of the block m, while its other end extends rearwardly ata slight incline. When the block mis movedoutwardly by the shuttle, it moves the bell-crank lever q and so raises its rearwardly-extending end. Normally t'. 6., when the block is not engaged by the shuttle, the shuttle being out of the boz;gravity' tends to hold the bell-crank lever in the position shown in Fig. 2, the rearwardlyextending arm of said lever being longer than the other arm.

On each side of the loom is fulcrumed a substantially vertical lever r, which carries a plate .9, arranged back of the rear end of the adjacent bell-crank lever g. This plate is pivoted at t and is held against the stop a by a spring '0 on the lever for reasons hereinafter pointed out; j

In bearings w, adjacent each lever r, is fulcrumed another lever so, having its lower end formed as a hook y and having its other end drawn away from the lever r by a spring a, which connects it with the arm. The levers a" and so are connected by a stem or link 1, which is pivoted to the lever r and penetrates I the lever w, being threaded and provided with nuts 2, whereby the connection between the two levers is adjustable.

3 designates another lever, which is pivoted in each side'frame of the loom, extending substantial] y horizontal. It's rear end carries an antifriction-roller 4, which bears against a be remarked,v is fulcrumed on the pin 9,

while the lay-swords d have hearings on the shaft 11, as usual. The picker-stick carries an angle-iron 12, between which and the picker-stick a lug 13 on the angle-lever has slight movement. Each picke'r-stickis connected with the loom-frame by means of a buffer-spring 14.

15 is a spring connecting the two angle-levers 8 and tending to draw their upwardlyextending arms toward each other, as seen ries a pin 16, which is adapted to be engaged by the hook portion 3 of the lever 03, which latter thus holds the forward end of the lever 3 elevated, so that said lever, the pitman 7, and the angle-lever S pull against the spring 15.

The loom operates as follows: The shaft cl rotates continuously, imparting the usual reciprocating motion to the batten through the pitmen f. The shuttle being in one of the boxes, the block on is pushed by said shuttle outwardly, so that it engages the bell-crank lever q and raises the rearwardly-extending portion thereof. This is While the batten is forward. The batten now moves back,whereupon the rearwardly-extending portion of the bell-crank lever q engages the plate 8, which by stop it presses the lever r back. This action effects the actuation of the lever as, so that the hooky thereof disengages the pin 16 and permits the forward end of lever 3 under the pull of spring 15 to drop, the shaftbhaving meantime turned so that the low part of the cam 5 is opposite the roller 1. The lever being thus released permits the an gle-lever to be actuated by the spring 15, so that said angle-lever by means of its lug 13 strikes the picker-stick, which in turn drives the shuttle across the batten. The operation is then repeated on the other side of the loom, The shuttle being shot across the batten, the levers r and as are released, so that the spring .2 may draw them to their original positioni. e., where when the cam 5 depresses the rear end of the lever 3, so as to reset the pickerstick, the pin 16 on the forward end of said lever will engage the hook y of the lever. It will be understood that where thereis no shuttle in the box@'. a, in every alternate pick of the loom the rear end of the bell-crank lever will be permitted to drop sufliciently, so as to clear the plate 8, with the result that the lever 1' and parts which it controls will remain unactuated.

It has been hereinbefore remarked that the plate .9 is yieldingly arranged on the lever 9. It should be also remarked that the rear end of the bell-crank lever q is formed with a rise or hook 17. hen the rear end of the lever q is moved backward, it first pushes against the plate and then slips past under the lower edge thereof. The rise or hook 17 of said 1ever makes the lever dip lower in clearing the plate than it otherwise would, and so the end of the lever which engages the block m presses momentarily harder against the block, thus making the latter serve as a shuttle-binder. It should be remarked that at this instant the shuttle enters the box. The object, therefore, of mounting the plate yieldingly is to permit it to give way to the rise or hook 17 as the lever (1 again advances.

By virtue of the adjustment afforded by the connection between the levers r and a; the lever a: may be set so as to release the shuttleaetuating mechanism at exactly the proper time after the shuttle has entered the box.

Having thus fully described my invention,- what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a loom, the combination of the batten, a weft-carrier arranged on said batten ,and a spring controlled weftcarrier actuating means, said actuating means being controlled by said Weft-carrier, substantially as de-' scribed.

2. In a loom, the combination of the batten, a weft-carrier arranged on said batten, a spring-controlled weft carrier-actuating means, mechanism for maintaining said actu ating means set against the tension of its spring, and means, controlled by said weftcarrier, for actuating said mechanism to release the actuating means, substantiallyas described.

3. In a loom, the combination of the batten,a shuttle arranged on said batten,a springcontrolled shuttle-actuating means, mechanism for maintaining said actuating means set against the tension of its spring, and means, comprising a part movable into the path of the shuttle on the batten and adapted to be moved by said shuttle, for actuating said mechanism to release the actuating means, substantially as described.

4. In a loom, the combination of the batten,a shuttle arranged on said batten,a springcontrolled shuttle-actuating means, mechanism for maintaining said actuating means set against the tension of its spring, means for moving said actuating means into engagement with said mechanism, and means, controlled by said shuttle, for actuating said mechanism to release the actuating means, substantially as described.

5. In a loom, the combination of the batten,a shuttle arranged on said batten,a springcontrolled shuttle-actuating means, a system of levers, means for moving said shuttle-actuating means into engagement with said levers to maintain said means set against the tension of its spring, and means, controlled by said shuttle, for actuating said system of levers to release said shuttle-actuating means, substantially as described.

6. In a loom, the combination of the batten,a shuttle arranged on said batten ,aspringcontrolled shuttle-actuating means, a system of levers, a rotating cam-shaft, said shuttleactuating means being adapted to be moved by said cam-shaft into engagement with said levers to maintain said means set against the tension of its spring, and means, controlled by said shuttle, for actuating said system of levers to release said shuttle-actuating means, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of December, 1901.

CHARLES J. NAUEN. lVitnesses:

ALFRED GARTNER, ROBERT J. .PoL'nrrr. 

